Premium, good looking design, with nice rounded corners, and a glass back

Light-weight at just 145g

Fast, accurate fingerprint scanner at the back

Good, tall, 5.84 inch 'bezel-less' display with a notch at the top

EMUI is now one of the better Android skins around, and has a lot of useful customizations

Decent performance similar to phones with the Snapdragon 625 processors - both regular use and casual games will be smooth and lag-free

Good set of dual rear cameras, with a nice bokeh effect, and bright colors (especially in daylight) - comparable to the other very good camera phone in this price bracket, the Redmi Note 5 Pro

The front camera has a 16Mp sensor and is pretty good too

Supports facial recognition too (and it works well)

Premium, elegant design, with a metal unibody - the phone feels very solid in the hand

The highlight of the phone is the modern 18.5:9 display ratio 'Infinity Display' - it has great viewing angles, punchy colours and deep blacks - the tall screen lends itself well to gaming and multimedia consumption and makes content look immersive - the screen also has an always-on mode that shows the time, date, battery level, and notifications for missed calls and alarms without waking the phone from sleep

Samsung's Experience UI on top of Android has some nifty features such as ultra data saving mode, an anti-virus app powered by McAfee, theme support, and a one-handed mode - there is also Samsung Pay Mini (enables mobile payments), and Samsung Mall (allows users to search for products across four e-commerce platforms using image recognition), and S Bike mode (promotes two-wheeler safety)

Pretty decent dual rear cameras - click good pictures in daylight with good dynamic range, accurate colours and a good amount of detail

Pretty decent front camera too, in daylight

Both the rear and front cameras are also capable of taking bokeh shots, and these generally come out well

Good battery life - the phone easily lasts the whole day with medium to intensive use, with some juice left in the tank

2-minute Review [Negatives]

EMUI is getting better with time, but is still a little cluttered

While performance is decent for most use cases, there are many better performing phones in this price bracket

Average loudspeaker

Battery life is average - with light to medium use, you will found yourself reaching for the charger by 7-8pm each day

Although the phone does theoretically support quick charging, a quick charging adapter is not included with the phone (will have to be purchased separately)

On the whole, while the P20 Lite is a good looking phone with a good display and good cameras, it's let down by performance and battery to some extent - it will find it difficult to compete on value with the likes of the Redmi Note 5 Pro, Asus Zenfone Max M1 Pro, Honor 7X, and Honor 9i

Quite heavy (191g) and wide, which makes one-handed use difficult - at 7.9mm, the phone is also not the slimmest out there, which exacerbates the issue

Thanks to the conspicuous antenna lines and prominent regulatory information, the back panel looks quite busy and cluttered

The fingerprint sensor is located right below the rear dual camera setup - not only is the sensor narrow and rather sluggish, but the location is also quite unergonomic - you might find your fingers constantly hitting the rear cameras instead of the sensor

The 'Infinity Display' looks nice, but is not exactly borderless - other phones in this price bracket generally have higher screen to body area ratios

Samsung's Experience UI with a host of Samsung applications competing with Google's own, as well a suite of Microsoft apps that cannot be uninstalled, is fast becoming as bloated as TouchWiz

Performance wise too, the A6+ falls significantly behind it's competition - push the phone, and slowdowns become noticeable - thanks to a budget Snapdragon 450 that is now more seen in under Rs. 10k phones - additionally Samsung Experience UI's drawn-out animations make the Galaxy A6+ feel even more sluggish

Facial recognition too is not the best - the feature only works well when you are facing the front camera head-on, and that too in favourable lighting

The rear and front cameras are decent in daylight, but not so good in low light

The single speaker is loud but shrill, and its location is quite awkward - it is easy to cover the speaker with your hand while watching videos or playing games in landscape

The quality of bundled accessories too is average - the earphones are very basic, and the Micro-USB cable is extremely short

The lack of NFC and the presence of the old-fashioned Micro-USB port for charging and data transfers are both disappointing too

Battery life is good, but charging speed is quite slow - the bundled charger takes more than three hours to charge the Galaxy A6+ fully, and takes 1.5 hours to get to 50 percent

On the whole, the A6+ has nothing much going for it except it's great screen and decent cameras, and might make more sense to hardcore Samsung loyalists - for most other users, phones like the Nokia 7 Plus, or the Honor 8 Pro, are going to be more well rounded options - at the cheaper end, you could also look at the Nokia 6.1 or the Redmi Note 5 Pro, which are going to be better value for money

Expert Reviews

If you look beyond that captivating display, you may want to check a few other options before placing your order as some of those will give you better value

The Huawei P20 Lite has some of the nicest fit and finish in the mid-range space, plus some powerful features that set it apart from the competition – but an older processor means its days are numbered